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AN ADDRESS, 



iNTRODUCTOItY TO A COURSK OP LECTUr^ESj 



DELIVEIiSD IN THE JUNIOR HALL OP BURLINGTON COLLEGE; 



BY THE RIGHT R£V. GfiORGE WASHINGTON DOANE, D.D., LL.D., 

:gI8H0P OP THE DIOCESE OF NEW JEHSEYj 
AIFD PHESIDEKT OF THE COLtEOEJ 



THAT OUB SONS MAY GROW UP 
A8 THE YOUNG PLANTS. 



aSurUnfiton : 

EtiMUNli MORBIS, AT THE MISSIOXABT PRESS. 
5IDCCCXLVIII. 







In ezcbangre 

Peabody Institute 

Baltimore 

AUG 2 1928 



ADDRESS. 



Kind neighbours, and dear friends, 

I bid you welcome to our College. I count your 
presence here, an omen of all good. I read in it the- 
strong assurance of your sympathy with us, in our 
great work. I feel, that we may count on your co- 
operation. I venture to rely upon your prayers. 

It is a special pleasure to us, that our modest 
Junior Hall has been the starting point of the 
Burlington Academy of Natural Sciences. I 
regard it as a gracious earnest of the years to come, 
that, in our second, we have won this mark of grati- 
fying confidence. We shall endeavour not to disap- 
point it. Letters and Science are the pillars, which 
we look to, to sustain the arch, to be erected here. 
Its blessing and its crown, we look for, in that pure 
and undefiled Religion; to be whose ministering ser- 
vants, is the highest glory, as it is the only worthy 
-aim, of Science and of Letters. 

The present undertaking proposes no contribution 
to Scie7ice, technically regarded. The course of Lec- 
tures to follow it, our first fruits in the golden har- 
vest of the mind, will fully meet that expectation of 
the case. My purpose will be answered, and my es- 
timate of this occasion carried out, by a brief outline 
of the Ends and Objects of Burlington College. 
It is due to the kindly interest on your part, which 
has brought you'here ; and due to the great enter- 
prize, which has been undertaken, and, I trust, will 
be forever prosecuted, in the most holy fear of God. 



What I say, will be informal, rapid and familiar; 
suggestive, rather than didactic; from the heart, more 
than from the head; as "a man talketh with his 
friends;" as I well feel, that I may talk with you. 
in what I say, I shall be understood as instituting no 
comparisons, as casting no reflections, as proposing 
no discoveries, as claimintr nothinsf as individual or 
original. If there be any virtue in our plans, it is in 
their adaptcdness to our whole nature, in its moral 
and its social aspects : if any confidence in their suc- 
cess, it is in the commendation to the hearts of men, 
which is to come to them from God. The single 
word, which best expresses all our ways and all our 
wishes, is the sacred monosyllable, Home. To be 
domestic, first, and then religious ; blending the two 
ideas — which God never meant should be disjoined, 
since He first knit the family bond, in Eden — in that 
expressive apostolic phrase, "a household of the 
faith," comprises all we count on, for good influence, 
and hope for, as good result, from Burlington Col- 
lege. The Poet of our times has made the sky-lark 
the best emblem of our aims and prayers ; and said, 
in two lines, all that we can ever say. 

"Leave to the nightingale her shady wood: 

" A privacy of glorious light is thine ; 

" Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood 

" Of harmony, with instinct more divine ; j 

" Type of the ivise, who soar, but never roam , 

" True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home .'"' 

i. It is our design, at Burlington College, to bring 
up MEN. I use the phrase, bring up, advisedly. The 
mere accident of a man-child, I speak it not irrever- 
ently, gives no "assurance of a man." The man- 
hood, which the Maker planned, and takes delight 

' Wordsworth. 



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in, fails, in a thousand ways, to fill its glorious des- 
tiny. If, from the thousand, one be taken, as the 
most extensive and most influential, in this failure, it 
must be self-indulgence. He cannot be a man, who 
has not self-control. As well expect the chalk to 
yield the spark, in its collision with the steel, as well 
expect the coal to give the lustre of the diamond, as 
manhood, where no hardness is endured. When the 
Apostle wrote to Timothy, " thou therefore, endure 
hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ," he addres- 
sed him, not as a Bishop, so much as, as a Christian. 
As Christians, we are soldiers all ; pledged to fight 
manfully the battle, with the flesh, and with the 
world. And delicate women will as soon endure the 
rigours of the siege, and turn the current of the heady 
fight, as those be men, who are not masters of them- 
selves. Now, nature shrinks from hardness. They 
that " train up a child," therefore, his parents, or his 
teachers, must inure him to it. But parents fail, in 
this essential part of duty, with but fevv'- exceptions ; 
and indulge their children, even beyond the bias of 
their 5e^-indulgence. And so, sad to say, but true 
as it is sad, v/ith few exceptions, children are not 
training to be men. It is not altogether wonderful 
that this is so. The tenderness of parents for their 
offspring, wisely and mercifully ordained of God, for 
good and gracious purposes, runs easily into excess, 
or swerves unconsciously from the straight line of 
duty. Nothing but firm religious principle, nor this, 
without a constant watchfulness upon themselves, 
will strengthen and sustain the parent, in this fore- 
most trial of his calling. Hence, -the advantage, if 
we must not say, the absolute necessity, of substi- 
tutes. As, in the treatment of those unhappy per= 



sons, who have lost the balance ot their mi nils, tiie 
next of kin become the least adapted to their disci- 
pline and care ; so, from the want of firmness in re- 
ligious principle, parents too often lose their fitness 
for the training of their children; and parental in- 
stincts and parental impulses conspire to be their 
ruin. The problem, for a case like this, is to supply 
parental interest, as near as may be, without parental 
weakness. The solution must be found, if any where, 
in a well ordered Christian School : a home, for safe- 
ty and for happiness ; but not a home, for weakness 
and indulfyence. In such a house, there must be or- 
der, that never varies; there must be vigilance, that 
never slumbers; there must be patience, that never 
yields; there must be love, that never tires. An 
atmosphere must be created, that shall minister to 
wholesomeness, and health, and strength. A moral 
mechanism must be constructed and directed, that 
shall frame the heart, by shaping and controlling all 
its ways : a heart-machinery, that holds, but never 
hurts ; that moulds, but does not mar. To this end, 
Christian men and Christian women must conspire. 
They must give themselves to it, as heart-work, and 
as life-worh. They must be moved to it, of God. 
They must be governed in it, by His Word. They 
must be guided for it, by His Church. They must 
be carried through it, by His Spirit. The fear of 
God must be the rule, the love of God must be the 
motive, to their purposes and plans, their devotions 
and their duties. They must be willing to take upon 
themselves, that most difficult and most delicate of 
all responsibilities, to be the parents of other people's 
children. They must count the cost, before they 
undertake it. They must be faithful to it, "in sea- 



Son, arid out df season." They must give them- 
selves up to it, and be altogether in it, arid of it. 
They must coiint nothing done v^^hile any thing 
can yet be done/ They must live, and brieathe^ 
and he^ that love, which "sufFereth long, and is 
kind." which " vaunteth not itself," which " is 
not easily provoked," which " beareth all things, 
hopeth all things^" and "endureth all things;" and 
which " never faileth." They must know and feel 
that this is not their rest. They must live daily in 
the sense, that their reward is, with their record, 
lipon high. *' They that be teachers shall shine as 
the brightness of the firmament ; and they that turn 
many to righteousness, as the stars forever and ever." 
What requirements I have enumerated ! What a 
provision I have supposed! What self-sacrifice I 
have taken for granted ! Shall it not be met ? Shall 
it not be reverenced ? Shall it not be loved ? I an- 
swer, without fear, that it will be! I speak, without 
the shadow of a doubt, when I say, that, to an appeal^ 
such as is here supposed, the child's heart will sur- 
render, at discretion. There will be difi"erences in 
cases. Some will require more than others. Some 
must be met in different ways from others. Some 
will seem sometimes almost beyond the all-enduring 
hope of such a love. But they, if any such there be, 
that are beyond it, quite, are monsters, and not chil- 
dren. Within the breast of every child there is an 
embryo man; God's image, in a shrine of mortal clay, 
And, when it finds itself in a congenial atmosphere, 
and feels itself in contact with a heart, it springs to 
meet it, is imbued with its outcoming virtue, and is 

' "Nil reputans actum, dum quid superesset agendum." 



humanized by its experience of iiumanity. We are 
told, that the. Parian marble, before the sculptor's eye 
had fallen upon it, or his hand had touched it, con^ 
tained, in the perfection of its beauty, the Apollo 
Belvidere. He only found it, and exposed it to the 
gaze of an admiring world. And old Prometheus^ 
as we read, kindled, with fire from heaven, the clay- 
cold statue, into life, and loveliness, and love. But, 
tell me, what are these but allegories, to set forth the 
beauty and the power of Christian Education? 
And, what are these results, but faint and far-off 
shadows, to their triumph, who, by patient love, and 
faithful prayer, develope, through the agency of the 
transforming Spirit, from the dull and sluggish and 
corrupted mass of our poor fallen nature, a gracious 
child, a glorious youth, a god-like man? The manli- 
ness of love, the manliness of truth, the manliness of 
piety ! The manliness that wears the spirit on the 
brow; purer than purest chrystal, more transparent, 
and more precious. The manliness, that bears the 
heart out in the hand; no plan, no purpose, no pursuit, 
no palpitation, that it shrinks to show. The manli- 
ness, that fears to sin, but knows no other fear. The 
manliness, that knows to die, but not to lie. The man- 
liness, that never boasts. The manliness, that never 
domineers. The manliness, that never swears. The 
manliness, that never drinks. The manliness, that 
bows, in meek compliance, with the shadow of a pa- 
rent's wish. The manliness, that sees, in every wo- 
man, the sex to which we owe our mothers. The 
manliness, to look all danger in the face, and seize it 
by the horns. The manliness, to bear all hardships, 
without grudging; and to render every honest ser- 
vice, without shame. The manliness, to reverence 



the poor. The manliness, to make concessions to the 
weak. The manliness, to feel. The manliness, to 
pity. And the manliness, to pray. This is the man* 
iiness, we ask from God, for these dear children. 
Such are the men, we strive, through grace, to form, 
at Burlington College. 

ii. It is our design, at Burlington College, to bring 
up GENTLEMEN. When you have found a man, yotl 
have not far to go, to find a gentleman. You cannot 
make a gold ring, out of brass. You cannot change 
a Cairn-gorm, or a Cape May chrystal, to a diamond* 
You cannot make a gentleman, till you have first a 
man. To be a gentleman, it will not be sufficient to 
have had a grandfather. 

" What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards t 
" AlaSj not all the blood of all the Howards !" 

To be a gentleman, does not depend upon the 
tailor, or the toilet. The proof of gentlemen is not to 
do no work. Blood will degenerate. Good clothes 
are not good habits. The Prince Lee Boo concluded 
that the hog, in England, was the only gentleman, 
as being the only thing that did not labour. A gen- 
tleman is just a gentle-mdni ; no more, no less : a dia- 
mond polished, that was first a diamond in the roUgh. 
A gentleman is gentle. A gentleman is modest. A 
gentleman is courteous. A gentleman is generous. 
A gentleman is slow to take offence, as being one that 
never gives it. A gentleman is slow to surmise evil, 
as being one that never thinks it. A gentleman goes 
armed, only in Consciousness of right. A gentleman 
subjects his appetites. A gentleman refines his 
tastes. A gentleman subdues his feelings. A gen- 
tleman controls his speech. A gentleman deems 
every other better than himself Sir Philip Sidney 



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was never so much a gentleman — mirrdr, though hd 
was, of England's knighthood— as when, upon the 
field of Zutphcn, as he lay in his own blood, he v/aiv- 
ed the draft of cool spring water, that was brought, to 
quench his mortal thirst, in favour of a dying soldier. 
St. Paul described a gentleman, when he exhorted 
the Philippian Christians, " Whatsoever things are 
true,' whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things 
are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever 
things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good re- 
port, if there be any virtue, and if there be any 
praise, think on these things." And Dr. Isaac Bar- 
row, in his admirable Sermon, on the calling of a 
Gentleman, pointedly says, "he should labour and 
study to be a leader unto virtue, and a notable pro- 
moter thereof; directing and exciting men thereto, 
by his exemplary conversation ; encouraging them 
by his countenance and authority; rewarding the 
goodness of meaner people, by his bounty and favour: 
he should be such a gentleman as Noah, who preach- 
ed righteousness, by his words and works, before a 
profane world." 

iii. It is our design, at Burlington College, to bring 
up SCHOLARS. This is the obvious point of our vo- 
cation. It is by our undertaking to do this, that we 
get the opportunity to do all the rest. For, sad to 
say, to send a boy, at charges, to bo made a man, or 
made a gentleman, would be thought of by but very 
few, were not the outside motive kept in view, to 
make him a good scholar. We find no fault with 
this. We rather rejoice in it. For its own sake, it 
would move us to great efforts, and great sacrifices. 
How much more for the other things, for which it 
gives us the occasion ! We aim at highest, most ex- 



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^ct, aad fullest scholarship. We have laid out a 
course, which will fulfil this aim, in all who give 
themselves to it, without reserve. Wc hold the 
study of the ancient languages of Greece and Rome 
essential to the height, exactitude, and fulness of the 
real scholar. In their living use, they trained the 
brightest minds the world has ever known : minds, 
whose reflected brightness has lighted all the after 
ages, in the path of learning. While, in the land of 
our forefathers, they have been, for ages, and yet are, 
the school of higliest and of noblest intellect, in 
every branch of service in the Church or State, in 
arts, in poetry, in letters, in philosophy, in universal 
science. It were an insult, now, to vindicate, in 
words, the value of these parts of learning, as open- 
ing the storehouses of wisdom ; or, still more, for 
mental discipline and cultivation. But, how often 
are the names of TuUy and of Plato upon tongues, 
that have not mastered the first elements of their re- 
spective languages. How many have "gone over" 
Virgil, without a trace of his refinement ; or Homer, 
without a dream of his inimitable truth to nature. 
Therefore, we have taken the ground, and will main- 
tain it, let it cost however much it may, that boys, 
who come to us, and stay with us, shall be made 
thorough, in their Classical attainments. We have 
made up our minds to all the toil, and all the self-de- 
nial, of the sternest and most searching drill. No 
boy shall take a place with us, on which he cannot 
stand ; nor have the name of any form, or any class, 
without the spirit and the power for which it stands. 
We know that this will cost us trouble. But, we 
know, that it is worth far more than it can cost And 
we are resolved, whoever else may be removed, that 



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we will not. For the boys themselves, we have but 
small concern. A half a term suffices, with the 
rarest and most insignificant exceptions, to convince 
them, that this is not the best, alone, but far the 
easiest, course. If a new punishment should be de- 
vised for Purgatory, let it be that of reading Cicero, 
without a gleam of Cicero's meaning, without a 
glimpse of Cicero's language. The task of twisting 
ropes of sand were Paradise, in the comparison: 
wretched and worthless in itself; and the consign- 
ment of immortal minds to wretchedness and worth- 
lessness, in tricks of superficial ness, and habits of un- 
reality. No : let a boy know nothing but the gram- 
mar of the language, but let him know that well. 
Let him have mastered all that he has undertaken, 
however little that may be. The knowledge that he 
has will then be certain knowledge. The progress 
that he has made will be triumphant progress. He 
will feel that his foot stands firm. He will feel that 
he is a freeman of the land. He will have lost no 
self-respect. He will have gained that surest element 
of victory, the consciousness of confidence. Nor 
shall the dead languages alone, suffice our Scholar- 
ship. We wish to train our scholars up for life, and 
influence, and action. We train them up for pre- 
sent things and present men. We will bring every 
thing to bear, to this end, on their fullest and most 
perfect mastery of that old, unexhausted, and exhaust- 
less, " well of English undefiled." And, to this end, 
we will open Europe to them : its marts of com- 
merce, its schools of learning, its cabinets and courts; 
with all its stores of science and of eloquence, of poe- 
try and wit : La Place, Bossuet, Moliere, Cervantes, 
Schiller, Tasso, Dante. So far from hindrances to 



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Greek and Latin, these are all active, living helps. 
So far from burying English letters, in their varied 
pile, they but enrich and set them off. The man that 
knows one language only, knows not one. He knov^^s 
his own the best, who knows most thoroughly the 
most. The school of language is the school of logic ; 
the palaestra of the mind, to train it for illustrious 
struggles and immortal triumphs. Parallel with 
these bright lines, we trace upon our course, the 
track of mathematical investigation : the surest 
source of self-possession, and the best preserver of 
that . mental equilibrium, without which, real great- 
ness cannot be. We hold to the exactest training in 
the most exact of sciences ; and we propose to make 
them practical, in their invaluable application to the 
uses and the arts of life. We would have nothing 
dead. Arithmetic, and Algebra, and Geometry, shall 
take feet, and traverse continents ; or wings, and 
measure orbs, that roll in glory through the sea of 
space. Not a field of nature, that shall not be open- 
ed. Not a faculty of observation, that shall not be 
quickened. Not a tree, "from the cedar that is in 
Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth out of 
the wall," that shall not be noted. Not a gem, that 
sparkles in the sun, or a shell, that blushes in the 
sea, that shall not be classified and catalogued. In a 
judicious plan, industriously pursued, there is a time, 
and a place, for every thing. The parts of knowledge 
have a kindred with each other. The mind is as ex- 
pansive as it is immortal. It "grows, by what it 
feeds on." And its true stores of real knowledge 
are no more felt to be a burden, than the resistance 
of the ever present, ever pressing, atmosphere retards 
the sky-ward eagle. " The mathematical sciences," 
says Dr. Barrow, in his Sermon on the calling of > 



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Scholar, " how pleasant is tho speculation of them to 
the mind! How useful is the practice to common 
life ! How do they whet and exalt the mind ! How 
do they inure it to strict reasoning and patient med- 
itation !" "Natural philosophy, the contemplation 
of this great theatre, or visible system, presented be- 
fore us; observing the various appearances therein, 
and inquiring into their causes ; reflecting on the or- 
der, connection, and harmony, of things; consider- 
ing their original source and their final design : how 
doth it enlarge our minds, and advance them above 
vulgar amusements, and the admiration of those 
petty things about which, men cark and bicker ! 
How may it serve to work in us, pious affections of 
admiration, reverence, and love, toward our great 
Creator, whose eternal divinity is dimly seen, whose 
glory is declared, whose transcendent perfections, 
and attributes of immense power, wisdom and good- 
ness, are conspicuously displayed, whose particular 
kindness towards us men, doth evidently shine in 
those, His works of nature !" " The perusal of histo- 
ry, how pleasant illumination of mind, how useful 
direction of life, how sprightly incentives to virtue, 
doth it afford ! How doth it supply the room of ex- 
perience, and furnish us with prudence at the ex- 
pense of others ; informing us about their ways of ac- 
tion, and the consequences thereof by examples, 
without our own danger or trouble ! How may it 
instruct and encourage us in piety, while therein we 
trace the paths of God in men, or observe the meth- 
ods of divine Providence ; how the Lord and Judge 
of the world, in due season, protecteth, prospereth, 
blesseth, rewardeth, innocence and integrity; how He 
crosseth, defeateth, blasteth, curseth, punisheth, ini- 
quity and outrage : managing things with admirable 



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temper of wisdom, to the good of mankind, and the 
advancement of His own glory!" 

iv. It is our design, at Burlington College, to bring 
up PATRIOTS. There never was a country which had 
such need of this. Never a country had such trust, 
for men, from God. Never a country held it with 
such exposure, and at such risk. There is no justifi- 
cation of the right of universal suffrage, but in the 
access to universal intelligence, and the encourage- 
ment of universal virtue. To say, " all men are 
equal," is to claim for every man the fitness to sus- 
tain and exercise equality. To suppose it possible 
to keep them so, is to deny, alike, the lessons of his- 
tory, the teachings of revelation, and the conclusions 
of experience. In every government, there must be 
governors. In all communities, there will be lead- 
ers. If these be ignorant, if these be venal, if these 
be vicious, where may we look for safety, how can 
we hope for freedom ? As oil will swim on water, 
so the intelligent and capable, in any nation, Avill se- 
cure the ascendant. What such security, as that 
their intelligence be a wise intelligence, and their 
capability a well-principled capability ? We are but 
infants, yet. We have not rounded, as a nation, yet, 
our century of years. Brief as our past is, it is full 
of warnings and of lessons. No warning more alarm- 
ing, than the ascendency of party spirit, as the test 
of strength, and passport to all power. No lesson 
more emphatic, than the necessity of a return to the 
simpler manners, and sterner virtues, of the first and 
purest days of tho republic. What hope of this, but 
in the training of our children, in the love of man, 
and in the fear of God ? What hope that he can rule 
a nation, who has never ruled himself? What hope, 
till waters learn to rise above their source, that pub- 



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lie manners will be pure, and public virtue elevated, 
while hearths are unblessed by prayer, and altars are 
desecrated or deserted? Nothing truer, in the word 
of perfect and unerring truth, or written on the face 
of nations, with a broader, deeper, track of blood and 
fire, than, that, while " righteousness exalteth a nation, 
sin is a reproach to any people!" 

V. Therefore, as that, without which all the rest 
were vain, it is our design, at Burlington College, to 
bring up Christians. The Word of God is daily 
read, at morning and at evening. At morning, at 
noon, and at evening, we kneel in daily prayers. The 
precept of the wise man is continually regarded, 
"Catechize a child in the way he should go; and 
when he is old, he will not depart from it." The 
means of grace are constantly employed. The hope 
of glory is steadfastly proposed. The pastoral feet are 
constantly in motion, in our sacred fold. The pasto- 
ral eye is constantly alert, to watch and guard our 
lambs. The pastoral voice, in adm.onition and reproof, 
in encouragement and consolation, is never still. And 
every yeanling in the flock is made to feel, in constant 
acts and offices of love, the beatings of the pastoral 
heart. We have set up the Cross before us, as the 
magnet of our souls. We bend before the Holy One, 
Who died upon it, to beseech Him, that He will draw 
us, by it, to Himself. It is our constant "heart's desire 
and prayer to God " — and He has promised both to 
hear and answer it — 'that "our sons may grow up as 
the young plants, and that our daughters may be as 
the polished corners of the temple;" and, that, serv- 
ing Him " without fear, in holiness and righteousness, 
before Him, all the days of our life," we may be "a 
people prepared for the Lord." 



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